The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 3, 1924, Page 1

in WEA ez me THER probably turday winds FORECAST VOL. NO. | Home Brew Ni did ac Sots Howdy, folks! This is the sea son of the year when « janitor t his toothpick into the furnace and thinks he has a roaring fire. 26. 188. ows ANNOUNCEMENT This is the the year when the newspapers publish their circulation figures. Not to be out done, Home Brew announces that its circulation is now up to 3, Little Homer Brew, Jr, having learned to read In the past six months, . cleaner ads. Beneath this stone Mes Ira Zinn,| A perfect fiend for “cutting in.” Just once too often he transgressed, That's why he now lica here at + A {1.100.000 Dotation has beer launched he cial agsintance to “worthy local industries Well, we're conducting a worthy local industry, and could we please have $10 to buy more yeast? ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: “Well now that th’ winter gets colder an’ colder, th’ girts are puttin’ on an extra layer of powder.”* drink beer by t glass. The voters Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, 1 wouldn't wear rubbers, but the » says [ must. United ¢ months totaled Homicide during the past States $,000, Yes, and if they get the fellow who invented the Cross Word Pui be 8 FOOTBALL DITTY “You'll have to hold the game a while,”” hb steps up and blubbers, Id is awfully damp and wet, I must go and get my rubbers.’’| nese army is now equi lax. We don't at defense an umbrellas is in th is tle, spit balls unless using umbrellas lost or stolen, {$24 umbrelias rowed. | For use at the front, Chin gen- | erals have bought a lot of those res taurant signs which say: ‘Watch Your Umbre z a * LI'L GEE GE TH OFFICE VAMP, Love ought to be en a woman, but the trouble is she can't dress | decently on it z Ezra veli fi E Mecker is going over the same course he made in "52, Making the course in ’2} just gocs to show how the old man’s game 4s improving. tra ia | The new community hotel will be| open by Christmas, it {s announced. | Gosh, we can hardly wait to writ home on some its free stationery! Yr DIARY and did fh West, the crannies he windler tit do the office fresh ve here, wid not 1, for indeed ot to have my waffles blown fron own table Ht breakfas wd did wee W. MeCurdy, armen. and he to sppendicitie aperation wn, ter | hi Ad B Higherups | The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington Blamed in : New York Giant Probe . Ban Johnson Wants to Stop Series but | Landis Says Games Will Go On TLANTIC CITY, N O'Connell were Charles Dooin, former manag league team, said today. “Th with neither of them.” Dooin expressed surpris affair, Cozy having played o! he was best known to ball fa MEEKER’S PLANE ON WAY TO CHICAGO Dashing Across Continent on Way to Dayton Contests Rep ARRIVE OKEH AT OMAHA) Meeker and Kelly Will Spend Night at Indianapolis MAHA, Neb, Oct. 3—Ezra Kor, 93-year-old trail blazer, who has traveled across t in more different ways iving man, hopped Crook flying fleld here ff from For t 1143 a. m,, in the airplane piloted Lieut. Oakley G. Kelly Meeker is now on the way to Chi from Vancouver, Ohio. Rantoul 1 be the next stop neer and his U. From there the air- neced to m Indianapolis to ow to attend the ir meet there. Meeker, the famous veteran of the covered wagon and ox team days, and Kelly arrived here this morning (Turn to Page 12, Column 2) The S ‘catspaw 3° “Oct, 3— —"I believe Dolan and for someone higher up,’ er of the Philadelphia National ¢ idea to bribe Sand originated e at Dolan’s connéction with the n the Phillies when “Red,” as ns, Was manager, “The Black Sox scandal In 1919 4id not expose all of the crooks tn baseball.” Dooin sald. “During my professional career I was approached $40,000 four times and once dumped into my lap catcher while I sat in a | ton.” He refused to was. had by HICAGO, Oct 3.-Ban president of the American league Johnson will confer with his attornoys Washington Bunday to prepare a federal court action in the baseball scandal involving two New York Na tional league baseball players, he an- | nounced, | Johnson said he wns determined to | jeee. the guilty ones punished. At the | jaame time he mild he believed the! world's nerien between Washington and the Giants should be called oft. | Johnson is angry because he was not officially notified of the confes sion of Jimmy O'Connell to attempts to bribe the shortrtop of the Phillies in 1899, af the Poatotfice ATT: Th tI WASH., Here are four of the principals in the Cronkhite murder trial in federal court in Tacoma. is Capt. Rosenbluth, who wil he Seattle St 4 as Becond Class Matter May 2 under the Act of Congress Mar JAY, OCTOBER 3, 1924, orld Series Play by Play in The Star Right After the Game Close 5} |) * ese Men Figure j in f! 1 be tried for the murder after On the right is S. Rose si father of Capt. Rosenbluth, GIVES POTHIER’ ; FIRST STORY OF SHOOTING Witness Represented Self as | -, Pothier’s trial is concluded. At the left is Agent T. J. Callaghan, of Rhode Island, who took Pothier's confession that he killed Cronkhite on order of Capt. Rosenbluth. Next | ave. Next is Pothier, now on trial. | who has been at the side of his son all during the trial. 2 by aa) 4 pores CS ces Whole C vonhlite Game Is BY JIM M/ SHALL to throw a game between the Phillies Life Insurance Agent N THE records of the board of and Gtants. inquiry that investigated t Easel | Cronkite death, are three letters ASHINGTON, Oct. 3—with the) DOCTOR ALSO TESTIFIES | whether they anal! remain, word of Commissioner Landis crossed out, in being fought out in for it, that nothing can stop the} m hushed courtroom in Tacoma, world series, and with the two ball clubs gathered for the opening game. Washington had survived yesterday's hysteria and today was ready to get the dirt throw: t the New York Yanks. In a rather warm seasion with the | | newspaper men night, Landis said that it was time for some people in authority to keep their shirts on} for last }and that the series would be played| (Turn to Page 12, Column 1) tory of | a Dollar! EDITORIAL REPORTER in Milwauk night, found among his thought was counterfeit. Bu eted it. En shabbily-dressed ,unfortunate, who begged hina “for the price The reporter Next ER Ceatty, in the course of the woman in the morgue. the river the night before. route home, he was stopped on a cold corner by a ee, lucky at cards one winter} winnings a silver dollar he} t, without protesting, he pock- with a shaw! over her head! of a room. hed in his pocket and handed her a coin. | Pothier of his rounds, he saw the body |, Police had recovered it from In her pocketbook, still clenched | Pothier said in her hand, was a silver dollar—counterfeit. The repo ing house, asd that the elerk There was only one way out she took it. r learned later that she h had applied at a lodg- had refused to accept the coin. for the destitute woman—and | * «# HAT dollar was mighty important. But it was no more vital than are the seventy thou-| sand dollars that are still mi drive in Seattle. Atte one of those missin, health, po: woman or r child in Seattle. That’s why it is vital that, if it is humanly in your powe: you should help make up as as you can. i EVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS to go! Six hundred and eighty | Seat’ le giving. A more brillia | the fact that it was raised in But—seventy thousand dollars | Community Find workers, who volunteered their time and dwish | effort, refused to stop when the drive closed officially at the . They rei ing dollars, r end of the 10 day jone of these mis efforts until the quota was If you have not been approached by a solicitor—if YOU | that be will leave vere out of town during the campaign—if you gave, but| that you COULD have given more, GIV E n if you can give only a YOUR DOLLAR may save ng in the Community Fund} g dollars means happiness, o: ibly even life, to some unfortunate man, many of those missing dollars * # thousand raised. A record in ant accomplishment in view of a brief 10 days. still to go. | alized the importance of each and agreed to keep up their eached. TODAY. dollar, G IVE! somebody's life! | went | Heldsic Attempt to Identify Tobacco Can as One Shot At COMA, Oct. 3.—The first of Roland Pothler’s story con. cerning the shooting of Major Alexander T. Cronkhite went to the jury trying him for the death, in federal court here to- day, It was detailed by Wil- liam P. Conley, captain of police for the New Haven railroad, sta- tioned at New Haven, Conn. ( ht onley said that imself as a life insurance agent for lithe Metropolitan and that the Metro- | politan wanted to know just how the |major met his death. ‘The interview | took place in Pothier's home at Cen- |tral Falls, N. ¥., in November, 1920 Here in the story Pothier told | Conley, according to the latter After the colufhn of the 213th En gineers hid halted while on a prac- nd tice hike, Pothier little el major pic Cronkhite in ing off the Th & Piper | ik tobacco can and set it on Cronkhite then drew his nd fired twice at the can T missed it,” he said, Then he fired again, “LT hit it that the he said Pothier, road. a, gun pont captain,” thinking he was tanking | to Captain Rosenbluth, turned, but could not that officer. Then there was a fourth shot from where did not know. — Major taggered and “My I'm shot Cronkhite 1, “Rosenbluth waa not present, A minuto later he appeared on the scene as if he had come from the brush at the aside of the road SAYS ROSENBLUTH DISLIKED BY MEN Pothier tpld Conley, Conley said, that he knew of no reason why the 1 the ma I captain a: quarreled. should hay according or also. sa to the railway policeman, that Cronk hite was loved by his men while Rosenbluth was disliked, Pothier} Iso claimed that at the time of the hooting he had no revolver, « borrowed gun Two witnesses Friday di e tending to confirm the accl- dent theory. They were Donald A naman, former regimental adju tant, and Dr.—formerly major Henry Tucker, of Massachuset ammunition in hi Hannaman said that there was a burn on the inner right sleeve of Major Cronkhite'’s blouse "Was it a powder mark or a |bullet mark (Turn to Page 12, Column 4) Neterer to Go to Bellingham Monday | Jury cases in federal court ended Friday for the Octe session and Judge Jeremiah Neterer announced Monday for a ses sion of the district court at Belling | ham. On his return at the end of next wook Neterer will sit upon admiralty cases for the remainder of October. | he represented gave evi-| where a federal judge, with straying gray hair, rocks back and forth and |yellow lights glint from polished oak The three letters are a blot on the ‘scut n of a family, one member of which commanded mous division in the war with |many. To erase the blot thous: of dollars have been spent, hearts jhave been broken—and two m jmust fight for their lives before |Jury of their peers. The letters are “S. I. W." Thoso letters, meaningless to a layman, represent to the man in khaki or navy blue a disgrace too deep for words, Members of the jfamily of the man about whom |thos$ letters tell their story, hang a fa ier rds a | |their heads, sorrow gnawing at thelr | hearts, | The letters mean “self-inflicted | wound; ” they emi? to she. world Paralysis Danger Passes the man shot cident or by in the army in time almost as bad as the other. A #0 r must not shoot ‘himself~he is © shoot others and, if necessary, be shot by them. himself, elther by design—and the one, eee th from th ander P. Cronkhite, FE letters which many influential records refer to Maj, Alex- late of the 213th Enginoers. He was tho young, impet- | uous, efficient son of Gen. Adelbert nkhite, who, during the war, commanded the Eighteenth division, A. E. F, Maj. Cronkhite, weak from an at- tack of Influenza, left his quarters at Camp Lewis on the morning of Octo- | ber 25, 1918, His dead body was car. ried back a few hours later, drilled |thru with a 45 caliber bullet from an army revolver Who fired the shot? “Maj. Cronkhite, himself, army board of inquiry. Sergeant-Bugler Roland Po- thier, 213th Engineers,” says one confession of Pothier, himself. __Why was the shot fired? « sald an of war, is | persons are trying to expunge | Caused by Three Letters “It was an accident,” said the army inquiry board. “ Robert Rosenbluth told me says another confession of Po-| | | to,” | thier, “We don’t know,” admits the U. S. department of Justice. . is that, on the morning of the tragedy Major Cronkhite, just out of jthe hospital, did not intend to accom pany his company on a practice |march, The company left without him Half an hour later, after he had jseen a medical officer and obtained |permission, Major Cronkhite set out} to catch up with his company, which |was with the company. , Major |Cronkhite caught up with it and au- |tomatically assumed command. The march route neared a machine gun on the road, warned the company not to proceed farther. At this, says Lorenzo 'T. Plum- (Turn to Page 12, Column 3) ' With Rains, Says Doctor Points Out That ( Cases E Have Been Mild! and Alarm Needless ITH the infantile ease is now paloved completes state health director, A total of 226 cases the entire state, Dr. Turner arrival of hea At no time has the di said Dr. Turner. pase have been closed, Dr. Turner announced Frid have been reported to date thruout| said. The disease has been prev-| jalent since the latter part of July. ached epidemic proportions, | To illustrate the needles: |been aroused in some sections of the state where schools} y rains ; thruout the state, the} paralysis menace has subsided and the dis-| ed, Dr. Paul A. Turner, y chee arm that has pointed out that there were almost as many deaths in the measles epidemic last spring Yet no one paid the sligh | epidemic,” he said. | ‘The disc which has visited |the state this year, fs an unusually jmild type. Not more than Jeent of the cases develop any of paralysis whatever of the ailment jbad factors |the disease are not ill enough to be onfined to their beds or to have ttention directed to them, Dr. Turn er said, In that way they mingle |with their playmates and spread it, jhe sald. Modical*science knows little about | the disease and its manner of spread jing Turner. Many |cases occur where children are cpm | pletely isolated in mountainous dis. |tricts too remote for even flies to reach ‘The number of deaths from the dis- ease thiy year is considered small in | proportion to the number of cas form The mildne has heen one of the Be as there have been cases of infantile paralys itest attention to the measles! Children suffering with | The disease has been widely s tered, Tacoma and Pierce county having the largest percentage of s to the population, But due to mildness of the disease, and the | that one affection leaves the victim completely immune, the situa- tion there not at all alarming, Dr, Turner says. The number of cases at the present time, lows by counties: King rays Har- bor, 1; Kittitas, 14; Kitsap, 1; Okano- gan, 2; P: Skagit, 3; Snoho- mish, 4; Thurston, 3; Walla Walla, Lincoln, 1; Whitman, tt | fact is in the state Whatcom, 2, Yakima, Th 1 number of cases of the disease ities of the state, in addition » in the rural districts, fol. 2; Bellingham, 4; By. t; Spokane, 18; Ta. coma, 43; Yakima, a4 outside cities, fol- | AGAINSTCLOSING OF SCHOOLS © (Dr, Turner Sa’ tion Is Unnecessary DR, PAUL A, TURNER State Director of Health. of health is generally closing of schools as a |measure against | against the infantile paralysi It is believed that the p disease was reached more week the rainy die out Only very make it partment to close any schools. than a season the epidemic will exceptional _ conditions seem advisable to the do- It is | With the children in school than out. |necessary examinations, When any indisposition {s found, the child ts sent home, until the case can be diagnosed by a doctor, With school inspection, all early |cases of the di can be detected, the children are isolated in their homes, properly treated, and the dis: Each morning, when the children reach school when the schools are maintained during en epidemic, child should be thoroly & nurse or doctor to detect any in- disposition, In the nurse or doctor is not available, the teacher should be instructed to make the ease is held in control. inspected by each | NEW CHARGES IN BALL BRIBE staat saraororotnnta e nee Hit on Head—Falls in Lake—Drowns! 209 c Pothier Trial RECOVER LL that ts known with certainty }ing, jhad left in command of Captain | Rosenbluth. | Pothier, now on trial in Tacoma, | |practice range. A soldier, stationed | ys Such he-| | The policy of the state department preventive | k of the} ago, and with the arrival of | much easier to control an epidemic | | | | |] often, Per.) |] sonality can be developed, just as |] we develop our muscles. i ! ; eas Sod So Shae hae TS IN ‘SEATTLB Bidets, BODY OF WORKER |Attempts at Resusci- | tation Fail; Investi- | gation of Accident by Coroner fe HELMERSON, 46, was drowned in Lake | Union Friday when he fell }into the water at the Lake Union Dry Dock and Mach- ine Works, 1515 Fairview He was employed as @ helper there. Witnesses say that @ sledgehammer he was slipped in his hand and him on the head. He splash= }ed into the water from the | float he was working on, and never came up, The was soon located with pling hooks and a pul: x summoned. It arrived in about half an hour, but ef= forts at resuscitation were unsuccessful. Helmerson was martial jand his home was at 5403 | Fifth ave. N. He was a large, _ strong man, and was known as “Big Joe.” The coroner is investigate TIME EXTENDED ON NEW BRIDGE” | West Spokane § Structure to Be Ready in November Time extensions of 30 days were granted contractors working on the | Spokane St. bridge by the board of publie works, Friday. The j |was to have been’ completed and jopened for traffic Thursday. It will” jnot be ready until the middle of | November. V. Ramaglia, who is builling the | }east approach, was granted a 30s |day extension. Gerrick & Gerrick, |who are building the steel bascule” | portion of thé bridge, were also given a 30-day extension. “The bridge will probably be ready | by the middle of November,” Chairs man George F. Russell said. SUCCESS OR FAILURE? HAT'S the difference between a success ana a failure? Take the case of Bill Jones and Jim Smith. Both are able, both are smart, both are ambitious. Yet Bill is a big money maker and Jim lives in Grub street.: Bill} | makes friends easily, and Jim doesn't. People listen to Bill and ignore Jim. The answer to all this, very { is PERSONALITY, Evangeline Weed, director of the Personality Institute, Boston, has written for The Star a series of lessons on personality, She has been teaching personality for the last five years and has ens Joyed sensational success, You can acquire it by studying Miss Weed's lessons. They start | on tho editorial page TODAY . !